APEC Tourism Impediments Study Stage III
Keywords:
Tourism impediments, Sustainability of tourism Liberalization of services trade, sustainable developmentAbstract
This article has the objectives to identify, update, analyze, and prioritize impediments to tourism development in order to achieve long-term environmental and social sustainability of the tourism industry and its economic impact, through human resources development. The study of this project was conducted by analyzing domestic law and regulations of the APEC economies relating to impediments to the tourism industry, analyzing the legal and institutional framework governing tourism services and investment, and conducting surveys and workshops in APEC economies, in order to provide strategic tourism liberalization and sustainable development for APEC economies;
The research results found that the impediments to tourism are the obstacles of people movement, border control, health control, taxes and fee, currency exchange, regulatory differences, languages barrier, transportation, infrastructure, telecommunication system, inefficient tourism operation. However, removing all these impediments requires strategic policy to implement the sustainability of tourism to avoid the negative impacts on the local way of life, natural resources, valuable cultural society, and economic development.
Recommendations and the use of the research result are to propose the strategic removal of tourism impediments to enhance tourism sustainability, provide the analytical finding of the impacts of the inbound and outbound tourists towards APEC economies, improve laws and regulations strengthen self-reliance of local people, standardize the health control in line with the WHO standard, effectively reserve natural resources, folk life, cultural society, human resources development, and to encourage tourists to value the local community.
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